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You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.
Julian Casablancas
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Julian Casablancas
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 23
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New York City
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Julian Fernando Casablancas
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The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.
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I always reference 'Mad Max' when I think about what I want to wear. But it's a fine line between that and 'Edward Scissorhands'.
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I over-think stuff a lot.
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With a hundred ways to do a dozen things, why not try it all?
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Doing heroin is like walking around with a terrorist as your friend. It's like taking a terrorist around to parties You never know when it's going to blow up on you.
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Working on music is the funnest thing for me, and I love it, and I could do it all day, all night.
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The British press can be so annoying. They jerk you off with one hand and smack you with the other.
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I don't really care about clothes, but it's about wearing something that gives you social confidence.
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I'm just going to try and be a good dad and not spoil the kid: give him love and encouragement but also discipline. Me and my woman, we don't want him to feel too entitled.
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If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.
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Kids are always honest, 'cause they don't think they're ever going to die.
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If it doesn't start with you, it dies with you.
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I think all of Manhattan has pretty much become a bar-slash-nightclub-slash-restaurant. There were always pockets of that. But now every corner of Manhattan is that.
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L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you're on vacation, even when you're working fourteen hours a day.
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That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.
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I think a lot of people study the rules too much and then don't know how to be creative.
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It's like an inner struggle for me, between saying I don't give a **** and trying to make it work. You want to do the right thing, but I'm sick of people thinking I'm difficult.
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Now, the good of business is put above anything else, as corporations have become the new ruling body. Most decisions seem to be made like ones of a medieval king: whatever makes profit while ignoring and repressing the truth about whatever suffering it may cause (like pop music, for that matter).
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I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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The best solutions are often simple, yet unexpected.
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